Linamar Corp., a manufacturing company based in Guelph, Ont., is buying the Salford Group Inc., maker of tillage equipment and crop nutrition applications, and headquartered in Salford, Ont.
The acquisition, expected to close during the second quarter of this year, will expand Linamar’s agriculture portfolio, which is currently anchored by Macon Industries.
Linamar’s agricultural manufacturing history includes White Farm Equipment in the 1980s along with Western Combine, which manufactured combines under the Massy Ferguson brand in the 1990s. Linamar’s Oros Division in Eastern Europe also manufactures corn and sunflower combine headers under the MacDon and Oros brands.
